Recursively creating hardlinks using python
directory, directory-structure, hardlink, python
Solution
It's possible in Python stdlib using `shutil` and `os.link`:
import os, shutil
shutil.copytree(src, dst, copy_function=os.link)
Problem
What I basically would like to do is `cp -Rl dir1 dir2`. But as I understand it, python only provides `shutils.copytree(src,dst)` which actually copies the files, but has no possibility of hardlinking the files instead. I know that I could invoke the `cp` command using the `subprocess` module, but I'd rather like to find a cleaner (pythonic) way to do so. So is there an easy way to do so or do I have to implement it myself recursing through the directories?